The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.

The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.

A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.

Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?

The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.

The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.

In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.

It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.

While there is life, there is hope.

You ought to travel on your own path.

You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.

Disagreement is something normal.

I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.

Being is born of not being.

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.